Abstract

Public properties are the national wealth of a country and belong to all generations. The economic value of these properties requires to specially preserve and protect them. Several strategies such as the use of modern technologies, strengthening of supervisory bodies and etc. are proposed to prevent the damages from private entities against public properties and to prevent abuses of power by the state and public entities. Nevertheless, the most important mechanism in this regard is to provide legal strategies to basically solve the problems. Legal capacities to protect public properties should be used effectively and in case of legal gap or defect, it is necessary to use the experiences of the other countries so as to provide appropriate legislative measurements. This article examines the current legal mechanisms used in the field of administrative law to preserve public properties and clarifies the legal status of Iran in this regard. Although the legal system of Iran has provided a required legal basis to protect the public domain, but there are some legal defects in some spheres. Therefore, the problem in the first section is the lack of understanding the law or failure to execute it and in the second part is that there is no rule to be implemented.